The B-Plot is an utter waste of Picardo's acting talents. I can't imagine he was happy with the dialogue he was given.

As for the A-Plot, they didn't emphasize enough why these laws were in place in my opinion. They should have mentioned Khan at least three times in ensuring the audience knew just why the Federation is so hostile to genetic engineering.

I was not a fan of this one at all. Rom is a totally different character and Jadzia's character-oh well Terry's acting is just bad. "Romance is a nuisance" and "interspecies romance involves bone breaking" there is no retconning that-it's a flat out reboot of her character and makes no sense at all.

Julian is naive and really pathetic here. Genetically engineered and this naive. Wow.

The Odo/bad Bajoran stuff was meh-I mean yeah there are a lot of people who didn't like Odo I'm sure but whatever.

I can understand completely why people are put off by early season DS9 it's terrible.

This is so remarkably funny. We know Betazoids are federation members but they seem like a potential security threat-why isn't that explored? Not to mention terrifying in a personal sense-if your Joe Ensign and you think the Betazoid rep is good lookin she'll know it, if a betazoid thinks so about you-it would be very uncomfortable-no telling what sort of gentle prodding or manipulation they could use to get their way.

The best part of this movie was Vader slaughtering the rebels, I was rooting for the imperials because the rebel characters were so unlikeable, so painful to watch and listen too I honestly was cheering as they blew up.

The last scene also doesn't gel well at all with the first scene in ANH

Jake's behavior was incredibly stupid. Jake can't possibly comprehend that Freedom of the Press um like uh doesn't exist everywhere especially in wartime while under an authoritarian power.

What kind of a moron wouldn't get that?

I mean its damn foolish enough he chose to stay behind but okay be an intrepid journalist and write your amazing articles from behind enemy lines. But do understand you can't write as if your writing from San Francisco Federation News Headquarters.

I'm around his age I wouldn't be that naïve and stupid.

Overall its a DS9 usual-more war than Trek. Yay. If I wanted war space opera I'd watch Star Wars.

Believe it or not I liked the idea-self emergent AI, the holodeck thematically expressing its growth and the ship seeking out needs like a baby seeking milk or food.

This is a harder sci fi concept and is a lot better than Soap Opera which DS9 apparently is popular for.

It does raise questions are ships in Trek if they've been around long enough, accumulated enough data and crew experience is the emergence of sentience inevitable?

So the Federation has a real problem much like Androids and Holograms what if ships, industrial replicators and planetary networks become alive? Will they it happen even if the AIs aren't necessarily going to be nice or will they lobotomize and do everything in their power to prevent AI from occurring? Hence showing that the Federation will only embrace NL and NC only so far.